Sore Throat/Cough Remedy

For Mid-Autumn Festival, each staff member of Suzhou International Foreign Language School received a box of about 20 golden pears and a box of mooncake. I was talking with two of my Chinese friends and they were wondering what I am going to do with 20 pears. How am I going to eat them all before they go bad? Well, I had been wondering the same thing. I couldn’t give the pears to them, because they all worked at the same place and thus they had also received the pears. Then, one of the friends suggested that I make a throat remedy with the pears. She said that it is especially good for teachers because teachers are always talking in front of the class. I said that it is definitely good for me because I teach such young children, so I always have to sing and yell with them, so my voice is getting hoarse and my throat is starting to bother me. The next day, my two friends came over with the other ingredients that we needed:
Ingredients: One Pear (a Golden Pear), Rock Sugar, Water
Directions: Core the pear and peel a bit of the skin off the top. Put the pear in a bowl with a little bit of water and put the bowl with the pear in a small pot with some water (maybe a quarter of the way up the bowl). Put one piece of rock sugar in the pear. Cover the pot and boil the water. Once the rock sugar in the pear has completely dissolved or melted, then the pear is done. Make sure that the skin of the pear is soft and comes off the pear easily. Then you can be sure that the pear is done.
When eating, you can eat the pear and drink the water that was in the bowl, but not the water that was in the pot. Also make sure to peel the pear while you eat it - I was told not to eat the peel. The recipe is delicious and very sweet (which I love). Try it and tell me what you think!